Comment on Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It

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varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Treated myself to a used Q8 eTron, first nice car I’ve ever had. I must say, all the bells and whistles, adaptive cruise control that eases off the go pedal when a town comes up, night vision that warns if an animal has a vector crossing mine, hands off stop and go and all that works neatly.

Emergency braking together with night vision was hard on the brakes once before I even knew that a deer was even there. It crossed into the high beams fractions of a second later and every screen in the car and the HUD had a red triangle in it with a deer symbol while I was already hanging in the seat belt. Yeah, no shit, thanks engineers.

What I’m saying is: Apparently all that stuff can be made properly, manufacturers just choose not to.

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